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Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Architecture is not about form

I'm a passionate architect ... I do not work for money

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.